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U.S. v. FORD

No. 11-2034.

683 F.3d 761 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John A. FORD, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 6, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol A. Bell , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, Brian T. Burgess (argued), Attorney, Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Sarah O'Rourke Schrup (argued), Owen McGovern (argued), Kathleen Riordan (argued), Attorneys, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

TINDER, Circuit Judge, concurs in the result.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted the defendant of armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), and the judge sentenced him to the statutory maximum of 240 months, id., in part because of his previous convictions for that crime. The appeal presents two issues; we begin with the lesser one, which involves the exclusion of a witness for the defense on the ground that he was an alibi witness and the defense had not given the prosecution the notice required...

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